Burglary suspect had lengthy arrest record
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. - A homeowner shot and killed a burglary suspect after a fight Tuesday night, Jacksonville police said.According to the (brief) report, Jones got into a struggle with one of the homeowners whose house he was burglarizing, and was shot dead for his troubles. At just 24 years of age, Mr. Jones had run up a serious list of felonies, including drug possession and resisting arrest, which naturally just shows how he was on the verge of turning his life around. Unfortunately, he met up with a homeowner who disavowed Martha Coakley's plea to resist "self-help" and wound up on the wrong end of a gun...
Police said Patrick Jones, 24, was looking for homes and cars to break into while roaming a Westside neighborhood near Dayton Road and Lane Avenue South at about 5:30 p.m.
It's sad when one so young loses their life in such an avoidable manner. But what's even sadder is that there's a homeowner out there who had to make the ultimate decision to drop the hammer on another human being, all over what? A handful of cheap electronics? Maybe some petty cash? Jewelry? Jones was willing to risk his life for a few dollars worth of items as opposed to working, and he paid the price for betting wrongly. To the forces aligned against freedom, they decry that someone would be willing to kill over their possessions. To those of us who cherish freedom, we shake our heads at someone willing to die over someone else's possessions.
It's a matter of perspective, to be sure, but it's rather telling, isn't it?
Dead Goblin Count: 223
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5 comments:
The guy served time for "felony traffic convictions"? Wow, they take their parking tickets seriously in Florida.
I want to think he must have been high, charging into occupied homes to rob them like that. Not a good decision, seeing that Florida isn't exactly gun-averse.
"The guy served time for "felony traffic convictions"? Wow, they take their parking tickets seriously in Florida."
Not parking tickets, but that would be the guy who lost control of his car, crossed the center-line and hit my van head-on. It was a very low speed collision, so neither of us was hurt, though I did get to experience the joy of an air-bag deployment. But he had no license and no insurance, so it was off to the dungeon for him.
That makes sense, I was wondering what counted as severe enough to result in actual time served, but hadn't gotten around to looking it up
Actually they got the entire story incorrect...he was apparantly being chased by a rival who was trying to kill him and was trying to seek shelter in cars and tried a couple of homes asking for someone to help him. When noone bothered to come to his aid, misunderstanding what was going on, the homeowner thought he was trying to rob him. Patrick's wounds were not defensive as he was shot in the back of his head, and where his body was found was not the initial crime scene. It is so many questions unanswered and noone will tell the truth. Patrick may have made mistakes in his life, but who hasn't? He was a wonderful father to 4 kids, a devoted brother, cousin, and friend, and was a loving son to his parents, and loved by many. He wasn't a thug at heart, just someone who just made wrong decisions in his life.
I've yet to hear a relative say "he was a thieving asshole, he deserved to get shot."
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